Harvard mathematician and Fields Prize winner Yau Shintong gave a geometric substantiation of the “first string revolution”, proposed fundamentally new ideas in understanding mass and curvature, and theoretically proved the stability of our Universe.

In his autobiographical book, Yau talks about an incredible path that led him to mathematical Olympus. A poor childhood in China and Hong Kong, graduate school at Berkeley at the height of the Vietnam War protests, proof of the Calabi conjecture for which he was awarded the Fields Medal, work on two continents - in China and America, development of a new field of mathematics - geometric analysis .

Yau created this new field together with friends and colleagues, paving the way for the solution of several important and very difficult problems that had faced science for decades and even hundreds of years. What their essence is - there is a chance to figure it out by reading the book. After all, the authors’ goal is not only to tell about the life of a gifted mathematician and the academic environment, but also to bring the reader closer to understanding current concepts and problems of mathematics and theoretical physics.